LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional
MAY 25 SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-13
365 Prayers to JESUS
Jesus, Thank You Lord for being our Savior, we never stop to think that You are our Savior because You chose to be that perfect Sacrifice and not because You were forced by some circumstance or to pay an obligation to some great work of man! You LORD can choose to do literally ANYTHING, You are the Creator of ALL THINGS and yet in Your Plan for mankind You made us in Your Image and then You planned that You would get intimately involved in our Salvation which meant You volunteered to give up Your Divinity, be born of flesh as we are born of flesh and then live a Perfect Life while being greatly persecuted by Your own people, and then the Plan called for the worst death imaginable on a Cross at Calvary so that all that believe in Your Plan can have the Best Life possible and to have that Best Life for all Eternity! Thank You just isn’t enough to repay You for Your Grace so my prayer is that every breath I take, every thought that I have will be used to LIVE the Life You have Planned for me. AMEN
The Jesus Questions
SRJQ#1-13 (Day 11) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.
Lesson 9 JQ#9 “Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom’?” Matthew 9:14-26
If you have not been reading these posts in the order that they are written, you will be missing one of the “blessings” that the Holy Spirit has intended for “The Jesus Questions” Project because seeing how the Holy Spirit has built all these lessons in sequence (or as Holy Scripture says “precept upon precept”) with each new lesson tying into the previous lesson and then leading into the next lesson in such a Divine Way that the “sequence” is a Divine Lesson in itself. The Holy Spirit then makes what seems like a deviation from the logical sequence of teaching us about our responsibility to the kingdom and how to live a life of “Love”, “Faith”, and “Obedience” because of our “Trust in God” and to “Walk-the-Walk” which will lead us to “Sharing-with-Others” the LOVE OF GOD then just after teaching us to put “Feet to our Faith” the Holy Spirit then throws in what on the surface seems like a light-hearted question in JQ#9 “Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom’?”. This question by itself can be taken light-hearted but taken in context of the previous questions which are themselves unified by their revelation of the Plan of God for the Salvation of mankind through the Life of the Father’s Only Begotten and Beloved Son, Jesus the Christ, we must stop and seriously consider what the term “Bridegroom” means in terms of God’s Divine Plan for mankind? On face value the term “Bridegroom” can be understood by all peoples, all languages, all cultures, every nation, all races … et. al. The term “Bridegroom” implies that there is certainly a “Bride” and also a “Marriage”. Let us stop and consider that the God of the Universe, the Creator of All Things who is the only “uncreated and self sustaining” being, who certainly does not need us to survive, why would this self-supported being chose to be bonded in “marriage” by a convention He Himself established and called “Holy Matrimony”. Further consider that God called everything “Good” in His Creation except for His statement about the new man He just created was without a mate: “And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (Genesis 2:18) and then “… the LORD GOD …made…a woman, and He brought her to the man.” (Genesis 2:22) and that became the first marriage. “And Adam said: ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…” (Genesis 2:23) I personally get goose bumps when I think that Jesus Himself who is referred to as the Second Adam has been “put into a deep sleep” called death and from that sleep God the Father took part of the very “Spirit” of the Son and used that “Spirit” to create the Church like He used Adam’s rib to create the first wife, Eve! To think that God giving His Son in Marriage is mind bending at least — there could be volume upon volume written of the symbolism this “Marriage” of God’s only Son, Jesus! Who is the “bride” and “Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom’?”!!!???
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